New Photograph of the Belgian Royal Family to Mark 60th Wedding Anniversary of Albert and Paola

The Belgian Royal House today released an image of King Albert and Queen Paola of Belgium with their three children, eleven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild (with another on the way). Only Prince Joachim of Belgium, the second son and third child of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz, was missing. The photograph was taken last week in the South of France.

King Albert and Queen Paola celebrated sixty years of marriage on 2 July.

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Noble Couplings That Were Not To Be: Hereditary Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Elvire Pasté de Rochefort

Noble Couplings That Were Not To Be: 

Hereditary Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Elvire Pasté de Rochefort

Princess Benedikte of Denmark, Fürst Richard of S-W-B, Elvire Pasté de Rochefort, Prince Gustav of S-W-B

On 16 August 2000, the Danish royal house announced the betrothal between Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (b.12 January 1969; eldest of three children and only son of Fürst Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Princess Benedikte of Denmark) and Elvire Pasté de Rochefort (b.Paris 13 March 1968). Elvire is one of two children of Hervé Pasté de Rochefort and his wife Hélène Rodocanachi.

The wedding between the pair was to take place in Paris in Spring of 2001. 

During a press conference in late August 2000 at Schloss Berleburg, Gustav and Elvire recalled that they first met at a wedding two years prior. Elvire was his dinner partner. The engaged couple revealed that it was not love at first sight. Elvire said that Gustav proposed to her on 23 July 2000. After their wedding, the couple planned to live in London for several years before moving to Schloss Berleburg.

On 25 November 2000, it was announced that the religious wedding of Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and his fiancée, Elvire Pasté de Rochefort, would take place at the Église de Saint Louis, Hôtel des Invalides, in Paris on 12 May 2001. A few months later, in March 2001, the news broke that the marriage of Gustav and Elvire had been postponed because of practical problems (logistics, accomodation, security). The union was expected to still occur in Paris at a later date.

Finally, in July 2001, Elvire and Gustav confirmed that their engagement had been called off.

On 30 April 2005, Elvire Pasté de Rochefort married Christophe Clamageran.

For many years, Prince Gustav of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg and Carina Axelsson have been in a relationship.

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Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony – Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali (HD 1080p)

Under the baton of the talented Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra performs Richard Strauss' Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op.64. Recorded at Gothenburg Concert Hall, on September 13, 2018.

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An Alpine Symphony, Op.64, German Eine Alpensinfonie, symphonic poem by German composer Richard Strauss that musically re-creates a day's mountain climb in the Bavarian Alps. It premiered on October 28, 1915.

At the time he composed this piece, Strauss was living in the southern Bavarian town of Garmisch (now Garmisch-Partenkirchen), at the foot of Germany's highest peak, the Zugspitze. As a young teenager, he and a group of friends had set out before dawn to climb a mountain, reached the summit five hours later, and been driven back down the mountain by a tremendous thunderstorm. Strauss recounted the experience in a letter, noting that, once he was near a piano, he had improvised a musical version of the experience. For his mature work, Strauss designated an ensemble of well more than 100 performers, including an abundance of brass and percussion, as well as such instruments as organ, wind machine, celesta, and two sets of timpani.

Although Strauss called his work a symphony, it bears none of the characteristics of that form. Instead of the standard four movements, An Alpine Symphony is written in one uninterrupted flow of music (roughly 45 minutes in performance length), portraying distinct episodes on the climb. It begins in the hours before sunrise, which are painted in dark and sombre tones. After the brassy emergence of the Sun, the climbers set forth to a rhythmic, rising theme; phrases of this theme recur throughout the work. Horns and clarinets, perhaps representing hunters and birds, carry them into the forest, where they pass by a brook and a waterfall. The mists rising from that cascade conjure up images of Alpine fairies. Leaving the forest, the climbers ascend to a sunny flower-filled Alpine meadow and then to a mountain pasture, where shepherds call to one another. The clangor of cowbells is heard.

The adventure takes an ominous turn when the climbers become lost in a thicket and then must traverse a glacier and a perilous precipice before they reach the summit. Here a grand trombone fanfare and rich orchestral passages create the effect of a glorious panorama revealed. But clouds cover the Sun, and darkness and turmoil prevail as a tremendous thunderstorm breaks overhead.

The adventurers scramble down the mountain, their descent represented by falling intervals, an inversion of the rising theme heard during the ascent. Each of the previous sights – the glacier, the pasture, the waterfall – passes by in reverse order as the climbers hasten down the slopes. By the time they arrive at the mountain's base, the Sun is setting. The storm has passed, night has come, and they are enfolded in the darkness. Musically and dramatically, Strauss brings the listener full circle.

Source: Betsy Schwarm (britannica.com)



Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

♪ Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op.64 (1911-1915)

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Gothenburg Concert Hall, September 13, 2018

(HD 1080p)

Hailed by The Guardian as ​"the latest sit-up-and-listen talent to emerge from the great Finnish conducting tradition", the 2018-2019 season will see Santtu-Matias Rouvali (b. 1985) continuing his positions as Chief Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony and Principal Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, alongside his longstanding Chief Conductor-ship with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra close to his home in Finland.

Rouvali has regular relationships with several orchestras across Europe, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. As well as making his debut with the Münchner Philharmoniker this season, he also returns to North America for concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Following a very successful Nordic tour with Hélène Grimaud last season, the Gothenburg Symphony is back on the road in February 2019 for a tour hitting major centres in Germany and Austria with pianist Alice Sara Ott, and percussionist Martin Grubinger who premieres a new percussion concert by Daníel Bjarnason. Rouvali looks forward to other ambitious touring projects with his orchestras in the future, including appearances in North America and Japan.

In addition to the extensive tour, Rouvali's season in Gothenburg opens with Strauss' Alpine Symphony accompanied by Víkingur Ólafsson Mozart Piano Concerto No.24, and he looks forward to collaborations with Janine Jansen, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Baiba Skride throughout the rest of the season.

As another cornerstone to his tenure in Gothenburg, he is adding his mark to the Orchestra's impressive recording legacy. In partnership with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Baiba Skride, a recording featuring concertos from Bernstein, Korngold and Rozsa is released in autumn 2018. This continues his great collaboration with Baiba Skride following their hugely successful recording of Nielsen and Sibelius' violin concertos with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra in summer 2015.

Rouvali has been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013. Highlights of the tenure so far include a Sibelius symphony cycle in autumn 2015, and the Orchestra's first tour to Japan in spring 2017 where they were accompanied by an exhibition of original Moomin drawings by Tove Jansson to mark the opening of the new museum at the Tampere Hall. He opens the 2018-2019 season with a Beethoven programme with pianist Javier Perianes.

Alongside an extremely busy symphonic conducting career, as Chief Conductor in Tampere he has conducted Verdi's La forza del destino and most recently world premiere of Olli Kortekangas's My Brother's Keeper (Veljeni vartija) with Tampere Opera in spring 2018.

Source: harrisonparrott.com

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This past my May I went on an amazing trip to Israel and Jordan. It was my fifth time in Israel and first time in Jordan.

Our tour was mostly in southern Israel but we also visited Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and even Gush Etzion in Judea and Samaria. We also visited communities in the Gaza envelope including Sderot and Halutza.

Other places visited in Israel were the Arava, Mitzpe Ramon and Beer Sheva.

After the JNFuture tour ended in Jerusalem I took a bus back south to Eilat located along the Red Sea and then took a day trip to Petra in Jordan. Petra was the most amazing place I have ever visited. The great Nabatean Kingdom capital city.

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Royal Mail from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex on the Birth of Their Son

In today's post arrived a lovely photo card from Kensington Palace. The image on the front was taken by Chris Allerton on 8 May when TRH The Duke and Duchess of Sussex presented their son, Master Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, to the world for the first time. Born on 6 May 2019 at Portland Hospital in London, the newest great-grandchild of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh was only two days old when his parents allowed the world to share in their happiness by seeing the infant with his parents at Windsor. We wish all the best to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they join the ranks of many sleep-deprived parents of newborns!

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Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon Turns 33

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HIH Jean Christophe, Prince Napoléon, today celebrates his thirty-third birthday.

Princess Caroline Napoléon, Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon, and Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

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The prince was born on 11 July 1986 at Saint-Raphaël, Var, as the second child and only son of Prince Charles Napoléon (b.1950) and Princess Béatrice of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.1950). The couple were married in a civil ceremony only in 1978, much to the consternation of both sets of parents. Charles and Béatrice divorced in 1989. Jean-Christophe has an older sister, Princess Caroline (b.1980), as well as two younger sisters, Sophie (b.1992) and Anh (b.1998; adopted).

The engagement between Prince Jean-Christophe Napoléon and Countess Olympia of Arco-Zinneberg was announced earlier this year. The couple are to be married in Paris on 19 October 2019. Jean Christophe works for The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, in London; Olympia is an art historian.

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Royal British Engagement Interviews: A Filmography from The Princess Royal in 1973 to Princess Eugenie of York in 2018

Owing to the advent of around-the-clock media, members of the British royal family have sometimes given interviews to the press when their engagements were announced. Here one can find a compilation of clips of statements given by British royals after they became affianced.

In 1973, The Princess Anne (The Princess Royal) and Captain Mark Phillips:

In 1981, The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer (The Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales):

In 2011, Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge):

In 2017, Prince Harry of Wales and Ms Meghan Markle (the Duke and Duchess of Sussex):

In 1986, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Sarah, Duchess of York:

In 2018, Princess Eugenie of York and Mr Jack Brooksbank:

In 1999, The Prince Edward and Miss Sophie Rhys-Jones (the Earl and Countess of Wessex):

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